This is the website of Mervyn Hathaway……… and you are welcome to it…………..
It’s main focus is oil painting, and canvases that struggle their way out of my garden studio a.k.a. The Grateful Shed.
It also catalogues a whole host of other unrelated – non painting – stuff, at least some of which I hope proves interesting to passers by.
Please feel free to jump onto the menu and have a look around.
Painting
I seem to have always painted. My work has appeared in various exhibitions and galleries throughout the UK and abroad, and I’ve been fortunate in the past to have work selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The following pages detail my how, what and when………… but leave the why well alone as I don’t really know that myself.
The Grateful Shed
An Enchanted Place 2006
RA Summer Exhibition 2007
Other Stuff
The non painting content is a motley collection of pages about other lifelong interests (i.e. obsessions) of mine concerning giant bubbles (yes, bubbles), memory, numbers and mental calculation; basically, games you can play just with your mind – you’ll find the full list under the drop down menu item ‘Ponders’
The memory / number content there is most definitely not Rain Man stuff. There are many methods, systems, tricks, etc – some stretching back hundreds if not thousands of years – that I really believe anyone can access and use to enjoy workouts for the brain, and hopefully surprise and amuse yourselves in the process.
The pages show many of these ideas and techniques, together with some tweaks of my own I’ve found useful over the years.